Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform vs Exinda comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 10, 2024

The Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform and Exinda are strong competitors in the SD-WAN space. Exinda appears to have the upper hand due to its extensive features and better pricing and ROI.

Features: Aruba EdgeConnect offers dynamic path control, simplified network management, and user-friendly deployment. Exinda provides robust traffic shaping, application acceleration, and comprehensive traffic management solutions, giving it an edge in feature set.

Room for Improvement: Aruba EdgeConnect could benefit from better reporting capabilities, more third-party integrations, and refined financial analytics. Exinda needs improved configuration options, enhanced documentation, and a more intuitive user interface. Exinda’s ease of use limitations appear more impactful.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Aruba EdgeConnect offers a straightforward setup and responsive customer service, facilitating easier deployment and management. Exinda, while effective, demands more time and expertise for deployment due to complex settings and produces slightly less satisfactory customer service experiences.

Pricing and ROI: Aruba EdgeConnect has higher setup costs but delivers favorable ROI through high performance and reduced network complexity. Exinda offers competitive pricing with superior value-for-money reflected in user ROI reviews, with extra features justifying the price gap.

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Categories and Ranking

Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Pl...

Ranking in WAN Optimization

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions (7th), WAN Edge (7th)

Exinda

Ranking in WAN Optimization

4th

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the WAN Optimization category, the mindshare of Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform is 19.9%, up from 18.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Exinda is 4.5%, up from 3.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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JOHN UNAMBA

Lead Regional Engineer at Weco Systems Group

Integrated security features and robust support improve network management

The solution was installed across two branches for a financial institution. One location had a data center, and the other was a branch office. For SaaS applications, traffic broke out from EdgeConnect directly to the cloud. Applications using the data center were channeled through the MPLS link…

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Marek Jaworski

Senior Engineer, Team Lead, Network Operations at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Allows us to have better control over our network by shaping traffic more gently

There might be room for improvement in the speed and throughput of some of their devices. They're getting a bit slow on some of the bigger devices. It would be helpful if there were some sort of an ISP model. Also, while I don't think it would be possible for them to do, it would be better if they had the Citrix support and the visualization to visualize your network. Besides that, it fits its purpose as a shaper and accelerator. Some people would say things like, "Add a firewall to it," but I disagree. I think a firewall's a firewall, and Exinda's a shaper and accelerator.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable features of Silver Peak VX are we can register our customers and they can receive free training and all the solutions features."

"I had to deal with them on a couple of issues, but the tool's technical support is top-notch...The product's initial setup phase is straightforward and the easiest."

"Aruba EdgeConnect has an inbuilt next-generation firewall, advanced routing capabilities, and one compression capacity."

"The most valuable features of Silver Peak VX is the flexibility, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. Additionally, the long-distance performance of the application storage is easy and effective."

"At the moment, for us, it is a very good solution because it has all the features we need and it is not so expensive."

"The platform is valuable for bandwidth reduction."

"The tool is easy to configure due to the existing pre-configured templates. It is easy to manage compared to legacy systems, which takes time. We can complete a site within 30 minutes. The tool's best feature is outdoor onboarding. You need to bring the box to the site with the internet. It is a simple plug-and-play. The solution offers a zero-touch procedure."

"I really love the auto-tunnel creation feature."

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"The most valuable feature is the ability to provide very granular classes of service. That's important because it allows us to prioritize certain traffic types over others, to a very granular level."

"The most valuable features are the shaper, accelerator, and the reporting... it will shape the traffic better than, for example, a Cisco, because it's more gentle on the shaping side of things. Suppose you were selling a 20-meg link. Because you can shape to the nth degree of traffic, the 20-meg link feels like about a 30 to 40-meg link."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to manage the traffic at the application layer. It makes things a lot easier. We're not digging for port numbers and IP addresses and different services... It makes us far more responsive in our ability to do things and speed up the process. We're a very small shop, so having something that's straightforward and easy to use is a big help."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to create policies where we can tailor them to the customer. It enables us to prioritize apps and users for bandwidth."

"Exinda can show you which product uses how much throughput and can help you manage it."

"It has the ability to prioritize, providing an automatic optimization. I can put it in a hierarchy and know that certain devices will be prioritized over others. It is able to identify the traffic. It can pick out whether if its a Zoom meeting (or something like that), then it's able to put that somewhere in the hierarchy based on the traffic type."

Cons

"More technical sessions should be offered for deploying the solution."

"One area for improvement is the Intel support integration."

"There are some functional limitations that could improve."

"Reporting is something that they can improve on."

"The support from Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect has declined since Aruba acquired them. The knowledge and speed of the agents could improve."

"I would like to have a physical appliance to use with the orchestrator for managing all EdgeConnect appliances. Currently, it's a virtual appliance."

"We would like to have better features for path selection. For example, if we know the network is going to go down then we would like to set up an alternate route for data packets in real-time."

"They have to implement more security with it. The security, mainly their firewall functions, have to be included in the firewall features."

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"In terms of improvement, one thing that has always frustrated me about it is that when you look at real-time monitoring, you can only filter it by IP address. You can't filter it by anything else. It would be good if we could filter by VLAN."

"The updating of applications that the system knows about could be a little quicker. For example, Zoom had been out for a while, but it took a while for it to show up as an application that Exinda could natively handle. We had to write some things in order to handle Zoom, initially."

"There might be room for improvement in the speed and throughput of some of their devices. They're getting a bit slow on some of the bigger devices. It would be helpful if there were some sort of an ISP model."

"A lot of working with this solution is really intuitive. I have picked it up mostly on my own. I'm sure that there are some things that maybe I hadn't thought of or really hadn't considered, and I think it would be good just to promote some day courses. I don't really see a whole lot that comes out for Exinda as far as training or informational sessions through our normal resellers. It would be cool to know more about the solution by utilizing educational resources or even have Exinda promoted a bit better."

"What I don't like is the fact that I haven't purchased the overall management interface. That is the interface that allows you to manage multiple Exindas. Personally, I think Exinda should provide that for free. I think that if you buy more and more Exinda boxes, you shouldn't then have to incur a charge for the overall management software. While I can manage each Exinda separately, if they provided me with the overall management platform for free that would probably encourage me to buy more appliances."

"It should improve the quality of service. It can improve their connection to the internet and your IP."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is high, I rate the pricing around five to six."

"There is an annual license required to use Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect."

"The licensing fees depend on the bandwidth. As an example of what we charge our customers, for 100MB without Boost, the price is approximately $2,000. That includes the licensing and the unit."

"The licensing would be cheap if we compare it with the others, like Cisco."

"Compared to other solutions, I think it is a cheap product in the market."

"You can get both yearly and monthly options in licensing. It is not expensive."

"The pricing for this product is good."

"The license for Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect is paid annually."

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"It is priced well for the market, for what it needs to do."

"The pricing and licensing are pretty fair and really competitive. There are other SD-WAN solutions that are pretty costly because they build in a service where they'll manage it for you, which is really great. I don't know if Exinda has that option as well. However, we are a small shop and cost-conscious. For things like this, we are accustomed to self-managing and this solution suits us just fine. For a tool that gives you, like the graphs and reporting, it has a fair price point."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Legal Firm

Computer Software Company

24%

Real Estate/Law Firm

13%

Government

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Silver Peak NX?

The tool's most valuable feature is bandwidth optimization.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Silver Peak NX?

It is an affordable product and yet still a bit expensive.

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What needs improvement with Silver Peak NX?

One area for improvement is the Intel support integration. The security could also improve.

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Also Known As

Silver Peak NX, Silver Peak VX, Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect

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Overview

The EdgeConnect SD-WAN platform secures and powers a self-driving wide area network for cloud-first enterprises.

In today’s edge-to-cloud enterprise, user experience and security are not optional

Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN provides a secure network foundation for Zero Trust and SASE. It includes a first-class SD-WAN paired with a next-generation firewall delivering unmatched quality of experience and advanced security.

Best-of-breed SASE with no compromise

EdgeConnect SD-WAN enables a best-of-breed SASE architecture that meets the security requirements of today’s digital organizations. It provides comprehensive SD-WAN and security services including next-generation firewall, fine-grained segmentation, IDS/IPS, and tightly integrates with many SSE (Security Service Edge) solutions.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Exinda is designed to help Network Managers solve pressing IT problems in today's complex network. Our award winning technology combines interactive analytics, an intelligent recommendation engine and powerful actions like shaping and optimization, all in one solution.

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Sample Customers

Group Dekko, Kingston Technology, American Student Assistance, Ares Management, Charlotte Metro Credit Union, Colonial Savings, Community Bank, Denali Credit Union, Bed Bath & Beyond, Breweries of Cameroon, Carnival Australia, Coastal Beverages, Toshiba Electronics, Tru Blu Beverages, WAXIE Sanitary Supply, Charleston Area Medical Center, Community Health Plan, Healthcare Company, Mercy Health, Linklaters, Miles & Stockbridge, Thomson Snell & Passmore

UMass Dartmouth, MLB Network, R&R Ice Cream, Savills, Manhattan School of Music, Blum Shapiro, Cincinnati Public Schools, City of Richmond, Genting Casinos, The Salvation Army, VoIP Unlimited, Frontier Silicon, Lakeshore Toltest, CTI Foods

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